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Trade unions representing hundreds of millions of people around the world have come out in support of what is expected to be the biggest climate mobilization the world has ever seen.

To tackle the problem of wage theft, which almost always places on workers the burden and risk of coming forward to report violations, we have to address the problem of retaliation.

Mayor de Blasio’s announcement of a salary parity agreement was historic in committing the city to equalize starting salaries for certified teachers in community-based early childhood education organizations with their public school counterparts.

The future of work means fewer hours spent working.

With top leaders discredited but refusing to step away, GM strikers have just one tool to use between their rock and their hard place: their right to vote no. Chrysler workers did it in 2015.

The United Auto Workers said on Sunday that a nationwide strike will begin before midnight. The move comes after the union and General Motors failed to agree on a new contract.

It’s one of the 20 largest workforces to unionize in the country this year.

Teen Vogue runs an op-ed column, No Class, dedicated to worker struggles and the American labor movement. This week's column focuses on the troubling working conditions at nail salons and the organizing efforts to change them.

The prestige of classical music obscures a range of unseemly realizations: arts managers are union-busting bosses like any other. Case in point: the lockout of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra members.

Following fifteen months of tense negotiations in which the employers’ continually refused to provide reasonable proposals the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 cancelled contract negotiations.